Terminator Is Out There

[Mr. Tea]

Ha! I just posted that in the election thread.

 

[Corpsey]

That's one of the (presumably inadvertent) great things about Arnie's casting in Terminator – that he was a Bavarian German, I mean. The voice of mechanised sociopathic slaughter.

That accent basically never made sense again ("Detective Jahn Kimble").

 

[Corpsey]

 

[luka]

What's that from

 

[Corpsey]

Have you seen the Arnie canon Luka?

Twins, Kindergarten Cop, True Lies, Commando, Raw Deal... Etc.

 

[luka]

No

 

[luka]

I've seen a fair bit though. He's obviously infinitely superior to Stallone.

 

[Corpsey]

I guess there's the early Arnie canon of hardcore action movies and then there's the irony drenched appreciation of his attempts to become a comedy/family film star.

 

[Corpsey]

Pretty sure he blazed that trail first. Every professional wrestler who gets into "acting" tries the same thing.

 

[luka]

Of your list I haven't seen comando or raw deal

 

[Corpsey]

Start with the action movies and move into comedy movies that make a joke out of a huge muscular man having to be a suburban dad or babysitter or whatever.

 

[Corpsey]

 

[luka]

Hulk Hogan did it too

 

[Corpsey]

Commando is the Arnie star vehicle movie par excellence. Totally over the top and ultraviolent with all these cheesy one liners.

 

[luka]

 

[Corpsey]

 

[luka]

I'll watch commando today

 

[Corpsey]

I imagine Yyyaldrin lives like this. Carrying a tree trunk over his shoulder on the way back to his studio in the Alps

 

[luka]

He's 5ft 2 he reckons

 

[Mr. Tea]

That's one of the (presumably inadvertent) great things about Arnie's casting in Terminator – that he was a Bavarian German, I mean. The voice of mechanised sociopathic slaughter.

That accent basically never made sense again ("Detective Jahn Kimble").

Austrian, innit.

I think nomad said here once that Germans find Arnie's accent amusing, because to them it makes him sound like a farmer.